"I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people."

“We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.”

“Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn't an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.”

“The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity.”

“This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better. It seems implausible, yet time and again history has proven it true. Virtually every major shift in cultural history can trace its origins to the work of a small group, often gathered around an innovative thinker or body of thought.”

“Malala Day is not my day. It is the day of every girl and every boy. It is a day when we come together to raise our voices, so that those without a voice can be heard.”

“I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.”

“Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.”

“I think people associate genre and music style with creativity, but it's all creativity regardless of what pipeline it comes down.”

Source : "A conversation with lead singer of The Almost and former Underoath drummer Aaron Gillespie". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.